epiploce

== English == === Etymology === From Latin epiplocē (“(rhetoric) connection”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιπλοκή (epiplokḗ, “plaiting together”), from ἐπιπλέκω (epiplékō, “to interweave”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) (see epi-) + πλέκω (plékō, “to plait”). === Noun === epiploce (uncountable) (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; escalation to a climax. Synonym of anaclasis.